...sin is the suspension of the ethical: Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce...unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them. . . ,42 De Silentio says people like Gloucester cannot be saved by fulfilling their civic duty or by...

...ambling nymph: I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this...time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity. And therefore, since I cannot...

...am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinisht, There is no fellow in the firmament. The skies are...in the world, — 'tis furnisht well with men, And Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own deformity: And therefore, since I cannot...

...unfit for love, "nor made to court an amorous looking-glass": Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this...unfashionable That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them (Richard III, ii, 19-23) Richard is the ultimate showman, who by "descant[ing] on [his] own deformity,"...

...Into this breathing world, scrace half made up, And that so lamely and unfashhionable That dogs barke at me as I halt by them — Why I, in this weak piping...time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun And descent on mine own deformity. (Aktl, l, 18-27) Andererseits...

...magazine had run a similar article in 1960, opening with Richard Ill's lament: "Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time / Into this breathing world, scarce...unfashionable / That dogs bark at me as I halt by them." The piece continued, "Every day, hundreds of thousands of US women have in the back of their minds...